[TYPO3] Newspaper looking for a CMS

[Osipov Dan]

Thanks,

We were really hoping to have a PHP based product. That's why Typo3
looked so promising.

Maintenance is an important factor, as we are having problems with
importing articles under our current CMS. So, thanks for this warning.

Does anyone know a good PHP CMS that would do? We've looked at Drupal,
but its such a memory hog, that we don't have the hardware to support
the system.

Thank you
Dan

-----Original Message-----
From: ries van Twisk [mailto:ries at vantwisk.nl] 
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 12:30 PM
To: Osipov Dan
Subject: Re: [TYPO3] Newspaper looking for a CMS

Hey,

I would not use TYPO3 for this task.
The backend database is not fit for the large a mouth of records you
are planning to maintain.

Although the number of hits is not that large, and typo3 could
help you there. It's more of a maintenance issue that will be
problematic. TYPO3's 'list' methods for adding and finding articles.
is not that great.

For a project this scale I would suggest to go for a good commercial
product, may be java based. I know there are some system 'out there'  
that can handle the
load and number of records. And make sure you seek commercial support.

Cofax springs into my mind,
but there are some really good CMS portals out there that can do the  
job much better
then typo3 does (for enterprise solutions that is).

Just my opinion.

Ries
--
Freelance TYPO3 software developer

> Hello,
>
> We are a newspaper site, currently with 1.5 million articles, with
> hundreds added every day. Our site has separate features, like blogs,
> photo galleries, static content, etc. We get close to 20 million  
> hits a
> month.
> Right now we are looking for a new CMS system base on top of which we
> will build custom modifications to fit our site. Can you tell us if
> Typo3 would be a good choice for our type of site? What kind of  
> hardware
> would we need to support our traffic? Is there a better choice for  
> a CMS
> for us (open-source or commercial)?
> I am not scared by the complexity of it, as long as it gets the job
> done.
>
> Please let us know your ideas, or if you know any helpful sites we  
> could
> look at.
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